Movie

Merry-Go-Round

1981 · 160 min

A disorienting, slow-burning mystery that feels like a dream you can't quite piece together, demanding patience and attention.

Overview: New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, melancholic and absurd. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Mystery, identity, deception, isolation
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
identity
deception
isolation
family
Places: big city
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild